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Subject: Re: Sometimes it is hard to walk the line as a journalist

Author: Chris Whittington

Date: 04:43:10 12/20/97

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On December 20, 1997 at 07:11:20, Mike Byrne wrote:

>
>On December 20, 1997 at 04:05:49, Komputer Korner wrote:
>
>>This latest episode with Rebel Decade  boils down to a question of
>>integrity.
>
>and judgement..I don't question your integrity...but your judgement is
>lacking in this one instance ..
>>Ed thinks that I should have given him much more time before
>>posting my KK tip of the Week # 39.
>
>I believe he is correct
>
>>My response to him was that I
>>received the info from someone else and it was fast becoming public
>>knowledge about being able to access the  Rebel 9 engine within Rebel
>>Decade 2.0.
>
>you became part of the problem and not part of the solution

<snipped>

If I screw up such as to let the universe get free copies of my program,
then that's my fault and problem; not the deliverer's of the message.

Its not KK's responsibility to point out to Ed that Ed screwed. If KK
views himself as a journo, then its for him to publicise if he wants; no
laws broken.

There is no cartel of producers and assorted KK's and others, whose task
it is to protect each other from blunders.

Ed screwed up, it up to Ed to recover, not to attack KK for divulging
the screw up.

Finally, if this was a Mindscape screw up with Chessmaster 5000, I doubt
very much that anybody here would be concerned. I think it highly likely
tthat the mechanism for exploiting the screw up would be happily posted
here, without complaint from anyone.

So stop playing clique-ish games.

Chris Whittington



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